Grateful Dead

'Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.' - Banana Yoshimoto

'If you listen carefully, you can hear these things. If you look carefully, you'll see what you're after.' - Unnamed

'In my opinion, we need more pounding in our culture.' - Jeff Mills

When Alexander the Great reached the River Ganges, he met a yogi."I have conquered the world," explained Alexander. "What can I do for you?" "You can step out of my way," replied the ascetic. "You're blocking my view of the sun." - Sparrow, excerpt from "The Demise of Cool"

"How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it." -Alexander Shulgin, Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story rest in peace

"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." - Anaïs Nin

three cheers and a biscuit for Anais. http://psychedelicfrontier.com/good-bye-sasha-chemist-alexander-shulgin… Hamilton Morris has a wonderful 20 min. video of his last encounter with the Shulgins at their residence in 2010.

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." -Cheshire Cat

'Women must find their own answer. That's the important thing. I'm no longer interested in books about women written by men. Even if I could believe in their objectivity, I just can't find their opinions relevant. Now I will only believe what a woman has to say about women, because even if it's not entirely true, it's her struggle and she's on the way to the answer. Many of you seek masculine approval. Even though you have inside you your way of talking and writing, you have mountains of it inside you, and even though it is enough to begin expressing yourselves so long as it is with your vocabulary, your abstractions, and your own conceptualization, I think you are still afraid of the master: men. Of their judgement. As long as you have this fear, you will not progress. I think the future belongs to women. Men have been completely dethroned. Their rhetoric is stale, used up. We must move on the rhetoric of women, one that is anchored in the organism, in the body.' - Marguerite Duras

"But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane." - Kathy Acker

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book... or you take a trip... and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken." - Anaïs Nin

"What do I care about all that average shit that has nothing to do with adventure?" - Kathy Acker

Oh I get it, hush hush... no worries, mate. But for regular customers you're still cool, yeah?

overseas customers have nothing to worry about. :)))))))))))) haha

"Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!" — William Blacker

"Most of us can read the writing on the wall, we just assume it's addressed to someone else." -Ivern Ball

"you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself." - Joyce Carol Oates

and apologies for the outburst. The happy relationship thing did not really bother me as much as the moron looking for goodies. As much of a Luddite as I am, even I know that the only two types of people doing that on the net are either law enforcement or dumbasses. I was pretty sure I was dealing with the latter, but in this online world, one never knows and I wanted to make it absolutely clear that I'm not participating in something that could get myself or this site in trouble. It was irritating. I do need to remember to cool it before I start typing though. Sorry. That was a lot of f-bombs. And thanks, Randall and Mike, for helping to keep it light.

"There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control - your mind and your mouth." -Molefi Kete Asante **that "wise man", as well as some others here, did drop quite a bit of sound advice. thanks, marye.

"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." -Wendell Berry

'Imagine that we loved imagining things and all this was in our imagination.' - Trouteyes

"When I shoot, everybody comes." -Tom Cruise ;-}

"Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you would never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." -Carl Sagan (1987)

'Remember, outputs go to inputs.' - Pauline Oliveros

'Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realise that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.' - Alan Watts

"Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are." -Jean Anouilh

'The music is meant to affect the head, heart and feet simultaneously. It plays to your desire for pleasure. Originally, music and tribal rhythms were used for ritual purposes - for the accumulation of sexual and intellectual energy. We'd like our music to affect the listener in that way - as say a drug would.' - Peter Christopherson

"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow cycles of nature, is a help." -May Sarton

I don't know about that, perhaps would much rather have gotten a new shed than patiently disassembling and refurbishing my old one. My back sure would have appreciated it.

"Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world." -Fred Rogers

Was that Ginger Astaire's mate?

close enough :)

'If I have not seen further, it is because I have been standing on the shoulders of dickheads.' - Trouteyes

YOU'RE STANDINGON A BRIDGE WATCHING YOURSELF GO BY WOW! LOOK AT THAT!

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike they die without any idea of death they have no theologians to instruct them their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies their funerals cost them nothing and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. -Voltaire

Always look on the bright side of life. -Monty Python

Mother nature always wins.

'I believe that, for humanity to progress, the model of the world, of reality, that parents pass on to their children needs to be replaced when the kids are in their teens by a darker, more complex vision. One taking into account all kinds of miasma, multiple plains of existence, sexual liberation, human perversity, idiocy, and beauty. I feel that benevolent outsiders, such as visionary homosexuals who bare their artistic souls in public, are fully qualified to do this. As long as children stay with the model of reality provided by their folks, no progress will be made.' - Peter Christopherson

"The country and its otherwise levelheaded journalistic institutions have forfeited the last vestiges of common sense before the altar of all things religious. We are alone, outside of the theocracies of the Middle East, in this distinction. Humbug." Berkely Breathed

"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around." -E.L. Konigsburg

"One of the ways we navigate our universe depends on our implementing and embodying propositional models. Our material experience involves comparing perceived realities with these propositional models. I'm not concerned that propositional cosmologies correspond in an exact way with some idea about reality, because in my view the realities we believe in are also propositional." - David Rosenboom

Back in the early 80's a friend of mine Dave from southern California use have a saying it goes like this. I have done so much for so long with so little I can do just about anything with nothing..

'Reject expressed belief - and exchange it for the possibility of genuine change. The believers' formula is a deception and they are deceived - which is a negation of their purpose. Faith is denial, and the metaphor for faith is idiocy, hence it always fails. To make their power more secure, governments force religion down the throats of their slaves, and it always succeeds. Few people escape it. When faith perishes, the "Self" comes into it's own.' - Austin Osman Spare

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ernest Hemingway

"Hey, sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle." - Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl

So what's his point? I guess context matters (sometimes).