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(page 27 of 302)
""When you listen to someone else tell a story, you expect some embellishment and you know they are only telling you how the events seemed to transpire to them. In the same way, you know how reality seems to be unfolding, how it seems to have unfolded in the past, but you should take your own perception with a grain of salt." --ch.2" — Dec 26, 2015 06:04PM
""When you listen to someone else tell a story, you expect some embellishment and you know they are only telling you how the events seemed to transpire to them. In the same way, you know how reality seems to be unfolding, how it seems to have unfolded in the past, but you should take your own perception with a grain of salt." --ch.2" — Dec 26, 2015 06:04PM
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(page 69 of 312)
""Just think: what would happen if every major medium of communication in our society gave more or less equal space to eight or ten markedly distinctive ideological points of view? _And_ the media executives and content-providers were trained in general-semantics? Yes, I know, that's impossible at this time. But why?" (p.67)" — Dec 20, 2016 10:52AM
""Just think: what would happen if every major medium of communication in our society gave more or less equal space to eight or ten markedly distinctive ideological points of view? _And_ the media executives and content-providers were trained in general-semantics? Yes, I know, that's impossible at this time. But why?" (p.67)" — Dec 20, 2016 10:52AM
“You didn't have to look your enemy in the eye or take responsibility for their deaths or injuries with a killing light beam. Killing someone at such a distance required no courage, strength, or intelligence.”
― The Blood
― The Blood
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
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“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for existence, and the most enforced idleness... Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty - it actually produces it... This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the central fact from which spring industrial, social, and political difficulties that perplex the world and with which statesmanship and philanthropy and education grapple in vain.”
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“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
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