Quotes n Quips

Tasty is usually better than tasteful. 

[bableman]

Ego is a rat on the sinking ship of being.

[kushandwizdom]

But I’d rather sleep with junkies than with angels As the moonlight turns all of us to werewolves And sunrise, it’s just a gorgeous bedtime, The way the light hits the cheap wine.

Johnny Hobo, “Free as the Rent We Don’t Pay” (via kushandwizdom)

[wordsthat-speak]

Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

The Body (Stephen King)

[bableman]

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

Terrence McKenna

[bableman]

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Robert Anton Wilson

[bableman]

I'm losing the will to care, and I find it beautiful.

Jeff noon

[bableman]

EXPECT TO FEEL PLEASURE. KNOWLEDGE IS SEXY. EXPECT TO FEEL PAIN. KNOWLEDGE IS TORTURE.

Jeff Noon

[bableman]

The man who doesn’t read has no advantage over the man who can't.

Mark Twain

[bableman]

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Philip K dick

[bableman]

The Aneristic Principle is that of ORDER, the Eristic Principle is that of DISORDER. On the surface, the Universe seems (to the ignorant) to be ordered; this is the ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Actually, what order is “there” is imposed on primal chaos in the same sense that a person’s name is draped over his actual self. It is the job of the scientist, for example, to implement this principle in a practical manner and some are quite brilliant at it. But on closer examination, order disolves into disorder, which is the ERISTIC ILLUSION.

Robert Anton Wilson

[bableman]

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Philip K dick

[bableman]

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Philip K dick

[bableman]

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

Terrence McKenna

[bableman]

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

Terrance McKenna

[bableman]

If the television is a babysitter then the Internet is a drunk librarian that won't shut up.

Dorothy Gambrill

[bableman]

She didn’t have panties on, but she had good manners.

Tom Robbins

[bableman]

“If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a very small country.”

Fred Allen I think