"What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export."

-- Robert Stone

#America Quotes #Worst Quotes

“We have three big shows on Sunday, so there will be pressure to spread the wealth.”
“Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: John Seabrook on Crowds". live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2011.
“Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.”
“I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.”
“What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.”
“Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.”
“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”
“To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.”

Source : Song: I'm Your Gun

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