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Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. – Norman Mailer

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Theres a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. – Norman Mailer

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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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Minorities
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one. – Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964

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It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat. – Loren Eiseley, “The Innocent Fox,” The Star Thrower, 1978

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…and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them. – Terri Guillemets

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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward. – Jean Cocteau

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it. – Lao Tzu

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If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters. – Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

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The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind. – Author Unknown

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