"You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected."
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"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing."
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"Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull."
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"I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts."
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"Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull."
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"You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones."
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"Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without Fear or Doubt, To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love."
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"When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull."
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"With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull."
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"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're not sleepy and getting up when they are!"
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"what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination"
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"Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull."
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"Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin."
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"How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull."
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"Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
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"The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread."
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"Life's true face is the skull."
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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?"
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"The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets."
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"A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash."
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