Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
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I don’t answer to anyone.
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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
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I lived in a kind of dream of communism.
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I use only essential oils for perfumes.
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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
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Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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The more you do, the more you think, the better you get.
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I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.
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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.
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It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
