Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I take my work seriously.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
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Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.
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God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.
