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"I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."
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"Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?"
"It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness."
"Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it."
"A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown."
"It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to."
"Come on, let your silly egotistical self be gone! And then only THAT WHICH IS will be shown."
"You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of."
"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"
"The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."
"For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty."
"Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function."
"The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers."
"All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him."
"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."
"The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host."
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