Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

Terence McKenna

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• My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • History
  • Help

• Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Start
  • Being
  • Aggressive

• I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Feeling
  • Energy
  • Body

• If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Happy
  • Boring
  • Then

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Reasonable

• I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Myself

• The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Attention
  • Struggle
  • Daughter

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Past
  • Interesting
  • Change

• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Together
  • Strong

• There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Myself

• If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Heart
  • Why

• Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Earth
  • Sometimes
  • Knows

• If you want to be a proud person, then you want to avenge your loss. For me it was Josean Serra and Joe Hughes, and for Michael Bisping, Henderson is one of his losses - one of his most painful losses. So I understand why he wants to avenge it. As an athlete I understand.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Proud
  • Athlete
  • Loss

• In Germany there is ranking for contribution rate, so the cheaper sickness funds with good quality can both advertise their better quality plus their lower contribution rates and therefore be gaining members. We had about 240 sickness funds a couple of months ago; we are now down to 213, I think. In two or three years, only 50 or so will survive.

  

  Karl Lauterbach
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Couple

• It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.

  

  Chris Adrian
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Suffering

• The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Think
  • Stupid
  • Internet

• I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Oriented

• Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Enough
  • Seems
  • Block