"Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them."

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Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

Ann Shulgin

#Simple Quotes #Long Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes

“There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.”
“Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.”
“Carlos Ruiz has been there, done that. I've seen it firsthand. He's gotten huge hits off me before in the post-season. He's been there. He's calm. He's confident back there.”

Source : Source: m.mlb.com
“Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?”
“Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of the sort of wholesale transformation of species that Darwin envisioned as the natural product of the evolutionary process. Few saw any reason to demur - though it is a startling fact that ...most species remain recognizably themselves, virtually unchanged throughout their occurrence in geological sediments of various ages.”
“I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.”
“The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.”

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