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“God, they will insist, is a spirit and is to be worshipped in spirit. Therefore an experience which is chemically conditioned cannot be an experience of the divine. But, in one way or another, all our experiences are chemically conditioned, and if we imagine that some of them are purely 'spiritual', purely 'intellectual', purely 'aesthetic', it is merely because we have never troubled to investigate the internal chemical environment at the moment of their occurrence.”
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“Lucky hard-ons are bio-degradable, I thought, because I was throwing a lot them away.”
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“All women, by their nature, are fragile and weak: they are attracted to the male in whom they see strength.”
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“Somehow he knew, based on very little experience, that this faux-casual shit spelled money.”
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“But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a bright room and something solid to call my own at least until I got tired of it. There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detatched.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
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