Favorite Quotes (from BOOKS!!!)

"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke."
— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or


and the one in my signature is Niels Bohr.

"the end"........

"Call me Ishmael,"

once upon a time..

I'm so stoked to see that reading is still in vogue.

bobbypyn said:

I'm so stoked to see that reading is still in vogue.

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the magazine?

i feel my fate in what i cannot fear . i learn by going where i have to go . Theodore Roethke "the walking"

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Gadaffiduck said:

the magazine?

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Nah fool; the girl singing group.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time........................... I think I've forgotten this before.

bobbypyn said:

Nah fool; the girl singing group.

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haha no that would be En Vogue, can't fool me!

well thanks for turning me onto all these great books, guys! Can I close my own threads?

see spot run ...

I actually enjoyed 'The Doors of Perception' by Aldous Huxley

If you haven't read it I suggest you do.

EDIT: I can't remember a lot of it that's why I got no quote... but I remember it being good!

Gadaffiduck said:

I actually enjoyed 'The Doors of Perception' by Aldous Huxley

If you haven't read it I suggest you do.

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good suggestion; great book!

If you dig Huxley, you'd like McKenna's stuff too! T-Mac is the shizzle.

Ive only checked out his you tube vids and stuff, but have always been interested.

what book by T-mac do you suggest to get started with?

True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise
by Terence McKenna

his vids rule!

"When the legends die, the dreams end, when the dreams end, there is no more greatness." ~ Tecumseh

I'll allow Native American quotes, cuz they weren't so big on books, but I don't hate on spoken tradition.

"White people go to church to talk about God. Indians eat peyote to talk TO God." Quannah Parker