"And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject."

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Source : Oscar Zeta Acosta (2013). “Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo”, p.30, Vintage

Oscar Zeta Acosta

#Matter Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“All I can think about is bed.â€ â€œWeâ€™re sharing the same thought.â€ â€œYouâ€™re thinking about bed too?â€ â€œIâ€™m thinking about YOU in MY bed.”
“Steve Jobs just made a product. He started off where a lot of people were skeptical of what he was doing, and he basically just focused on the product and making it the best he could, and really focused on what it was that these products would take into your lives.”
“[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes-ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases.”
“It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.”
“The only time I took Ecstacy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing.”
“I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.”
“I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.”
“Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.”

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