"The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me."

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Source : "Unfortunate Casino: A Conversation With Gerry Beckley". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2011.

Gerry Beckley

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Influence Quotes

“Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.”
“Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.”

Source : "Talulla Rising". Book by Glen Duncan, March 21, 2012.
“The basic premise of religionâ€“ that if you live a good life, things will go well for youâ€“ is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.”
“The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.”
“I don't wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we'll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer But I'll fill the emptiness I'll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.”
“We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.”

Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.3, Frog Books
“Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.”
“Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!”

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