"There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon."
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"I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it."
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"Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come."
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"Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper."
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"All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously."
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"Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?"
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"To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell."
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"Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked."
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"Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes."
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"A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free."
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"There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims."
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"My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?"
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"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced."
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"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being."
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"Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice."
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"Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life."
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"People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously."
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"Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense."
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"Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem."
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"Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!"
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