“Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.”
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
“I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself; things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.”
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“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture.”
― Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System
― Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System
“Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.”
― The One-Straw Revolution
― The One-Straw Revolution
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