Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
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O, had I but followed the arts!
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Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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A man's world, but a white man's planet.
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My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
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I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
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I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.
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Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.
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I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an America of perpetual adolescence. Our kids simply don't know what an adult is anymore - or how to become one. Many don't even see a reason to try. Perhaps more problematic, the older generations have forgotten that we need to plan to teach them. It's our fault more than it is theirs.
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Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
