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"Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer."
"When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it."
"The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can."
"All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you."
"Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now."
"And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!"
"A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end."
"Knowledge is knowing as little as possible."
"Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again."
"Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?"
"All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room."
"It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need."
"If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well."
"I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like."
"We do not know a truth without knowing its cause."
"I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie"
"If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search."
"The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it."
"I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything."
"A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time."
