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"We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other."
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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."
"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."
"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
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"Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community."
"They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms."
"It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process."
"We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other."
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