Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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I don't do anything in a vindictive manner. Look at my 14-year track record in Gujarat. People don't vote me to power to take revenge.
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Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
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Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.
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If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
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At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.
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You fell in love with me?
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Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
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I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.
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And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
