"When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad experience is not something we should fear: only in such experience are we jarred out of our common sense opinions and beliefs. It opens our minds to other ideas and thought. It makes us think."

-- Leonard Lawlor

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“In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.”
“I am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.”
“Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.”
“I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it.”

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“Money without brains is always dangerous.”
“It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.”
“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime”

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