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Out Quotes by Terence McKenna
- Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back…
- We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
- Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making…
- The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the…
- Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.
- A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is…
- Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
- You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks…
- Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the…
- Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
- And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money,…
- I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as…
- Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they…
- We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player,…
- I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria