Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.
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I've seen some remarkable games, but never anything like that.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Experience is the mother of custom.
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I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.
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A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.
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The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.
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Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.
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There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
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How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
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I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
