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- When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
- It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard…
- It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.
- It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to…
- Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest…
- Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect,…
- I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between…
- I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from…
- I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.
- The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
- The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch,…
- (I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I…
- The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.
- Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of…
- There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and…
- But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the…
- I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
- The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head…
- Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated…
- At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.…
- I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on…
- The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument…
- Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal…
- But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type…
- If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you,…
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