Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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I like to improvise.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?
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I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.
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The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
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One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.
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Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. … It’s hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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On the back of the Silver Phantom I have flown so high that his wing-tips seemed to touch the very moon itself…
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
