"The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system."

-- Thomas Paine

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“This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean â€• next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. Thatâ€™s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.”
“If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.”
“I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.”

Source : "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.
“Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.”
“They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.”
“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”
“When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.”
“All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.”

Source : Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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