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“I’m forty one years old,” says David, “and I have spent half my life regretting that I missed the Sixties. I read about the energy, and I imagine what the music would’ve sounded like when you hadn’t heard it a thousand times before, and when it actually meant something, and I’ve always been sad that the world is different now.”
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Speaker: Lao TzuPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
Speaker: George LucasPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 3:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“But I will say no more about it. Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“My dear friend, have you forgotten that instructive story about Siddhartha, the Brahmin’s son, which you once told me here? Who protected Siddhartha the Samana from Samsara, from sin, greed and folly? Could his father’s piety, his teacher’s exhortations, his own knowledge, his own seeking, protect him? Which father, which teacher, could prevent him from living his own life, from soiling himself with life, from loading himself with sin, from swallowing the bitter drink himself, from finding his own path? Do you think, my dear friend, that anybody is spared this path?”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew.
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I am not going anywhere. I am only on the way. I am making a pilgrimage.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Slowly, like moisture entering the dying tree trunk, slowly filling and rotting it, so did the world and inertia creep into Siddhartha’s soul; it slowly filled his soul, made it heavy, made it tired, sent it to sleep.
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Nothing is caused by demons; there are no demons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait, and fast.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“You are clever, O Samana,” said the Illustrious One, “you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Let me warn you, you who are thirsty for knowledge, against the thicket of opinions and the conflict of words. Opinions mean nothing. they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You hear this all the time; critics of organized religion constantly say things like, “There is no way a just God would send a man like Gandhi to hell simply because he’s not a Christian.” Well, why not? I’m certainly pulling for Gandhi’s eternal salvation, but there’s no reason to believe there’s a logic to the afterlife selection process. It might be logical, and it might be arbitrary; in a way, it would be more logical if it was totally arbitrary. But the idea of questioning God’s motives will always be a fiercely American thing to do; it’s almost patriotic to get in God’s face. I’m pretty sure a lot of my friends would love the opportunity to vote against God in a run-off election. Even I’d be curious to see who the other candidate might be (probably Harry Browne).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is ultimately what I like about the Born-Again Lifestyle: Even though I see fundamentalist Christians as wild-eyed maniacs, I respect their verve. They are probably the only people openly fighting against America’s insipid Oprah Culture – the pervasive belief system that insists everyone’s perspective is valid and that no one can be judged. As far as I can tell, most people I know are like me; most of the people I know are bad people (or they’re good people, but they consciously choose to do bad things). We deserve to be judged.
I realize that liberals and libertarians and Michael Stipe are always quick to quote the Bible when you say something like that, and they’ll tell you, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” And that’s a solid retort for just about anything, really. But the thing with born agains is that they want to be judged. They can’t fucking wait. That’s why they’re cool.Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is something undeniably attractive about becoming a born-again Christian. I hear atheists say that all the time, although they inevitably make that suggestion in the most insulting way possible: Nothing offends me more than those who claim they wish they could become blindly religious because it would “make everything so simple.” People who make that argument are trying to convince the world that they’re somehow doomed by their own intelligence, and that they’d love to be as stupid as all the thoughtless automatons they condescendingly despise.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good intentions can’t compete with bad policy.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I would never try to convince someone not to hate the media. As far as I can tell, it’s a completely reasonable thing to hate. Whenever I meet someone who feels a sense of hatred for a large, amorphous body – the media, the government, Ticketmaster, the Illuminati, Anna Nicole Smith, whatever – I fully support their distaste. It’s always better to be mad at something vast and unspecific and theoretical, as these entities cannot sue you for defamation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My obsession with serial killers began when I was ten years old. My fourth-grade teacher told our class that we should never hitchhike, because the only people who picked up hitchhikers were perverted serial killers. This advice was complicated by what my fifth-grade teacher told us the following year; she said that we would all have driver’s licenses in a few years, and the one rule we always needed to remember was never to pick up hitchhikers. This was because all hitchhikers were serial killers. According to what I learned in public school, every person on every freeway was trolling for destruction. i used to imagine nomadic, sadistic drifters thumbing rides with bloodthirsty Volkswagen owners, both desperately waiting for the first opportunity to kill each other. Hitchhiking seemed like an ultraviolent race against time.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For the past twenty-five years, culture has been obsessed with making males and females more alike, and that’s fine. Maybe it’s even enlightened. But what I’ve noticed – at least among young people – is that this convergence has mostly just prompted females to adopt the worst qualities of men. It’s like girls are trying to attain equality by becoming equally shallow and selfish. Whenever I see TV shows like Fox’s defunct Ally McBeal or HBO’s Sex and the City, I find myself perplexed as to how this is sometimes viewed as an “advancement” for feminism; it seems to imply that it’s empowering for women to think like all of the stupidest men I know (myself included).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 5:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!