"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

-- Henry Miller

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“Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...”
“The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water”
“It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.”

Source : "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
“Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful quality that came through that made you - if you're somebody like me who was, I guess, supposed to play the banjo, it made you stop in your tracks, and you couldn't do anything until you got done hearing him play, and then immediately you'd have to go try and find a banjo.”
“People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.”
“I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.”
“I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.”
“I believe in freedom of speech, and at the same time I think that sometimes it can be worth it to not say something. In my opinion there is a sort of limit to that freedom, but where that limit exactly lies is open for discussion. As soon as there is no longer any discussion possible, than it has reached its limits and therefore freedom of speech will no longer exist.”

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