Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
Terence McKenna
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See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.
Elin Hilderbrand
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
Van Morrison
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This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.
Vachel Lindsay
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To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
C. S. Lewis
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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
Paul Auster
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
William Morris
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We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare
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You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.
William Friedkin
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There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?
Gabrielle Zevin
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When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.
Gary Player
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Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
Monica Raymund