"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."

-- Salvador Dali

#Artist Quotes #Drug Quotes

“I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I argue that in the long run, the US would be on a far more financially secure footing if we recalibrate how we spend about two-to-three percent of the country's GNP, using state and federal taxes to create pools of money for spending on America's poor - which would, as numerous economists have argued in recent years, create virtuous spending circles, since those on lower incomes spend more of each extra dollar in their possession than do those on higher incomes.”
“After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.”

Source : Elizabeth Bisland (1906). “The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic”
“I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.”
“love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.”
“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?”
“Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.”
“You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.”

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