K. W. Jeter Quotes
Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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All you ladies that are selling your souls, you need to put your hooker vibes on hold.
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
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Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
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When you win one on this day, they become special ones and they get a special place in the barn. We've been blessed with some good ones.
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Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
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The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.
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Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.
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Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway. Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.
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Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
