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"It's for the greater good if I smoke a joint and calm down." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

“We are on guard against contagious diseases of the body, but we are... careless when it comes to the even more dangerous collective diseases of the mind.” ~ Carl Jung

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” ― Patricia Highsmith

“Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We find it more and more difficult to achieve a sense of continuity, permanence, or connection with the world around us. Relationships

"The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business." --Wendell Phillips

“People seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. People... they don't write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar:

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.” —August Strindberg

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” —Henry David Thoreau

"I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me, and my legs pounding along roads, and sleep, and animal existence." -Virginia Woolf

“There is no such thing as true self, so any pursuit geared toward its aggrandizement, betterment, upliftment, elevation, evolution, glorification, salvation, etc, is utter folly… Self is ego and ego resides exclusively in the dreamstate. If you want to break free of the

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“The writer can only be fertile if he renews himself and he can only renew himself if his soul is constantly enriched by fresh experience. There is no more fruitful source of this than the enchanting exploration of the great literatures of the past. For the production of a work

And if there is eternity I'd love you there again. — Bob Dylan

“…every innovator, every individual with a fresh vision or a larger vision of life, automatically destroys the existent moral code—in favor of spirit. But his disciples soon establish a new moral code, one just as rigid as the preceding one, forgetting that the spirit will again

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. ~ Emil Cioran

"An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?" ~ Annie Dillard

Happy birthday to the great Tom Waits, 76: "I spent all my money in a Mexican whorehouse baby cross the street from a Catholic church and I wiped off my revolver and I buttoned up my burgundy shirt I shot the morning in the back with my red wings on told the sun he better go

"Science will never be used chiefly to pursue truth, or to improve human life. The uses of knowledge will always be as shifting and crooked as humans are themselves. Humans use what they know to meet their most urgent needs – even if the result is ruin." - John Gray

“Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.” —Gore Vidal

"Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world." ~ Cioran