“Those who experiment and experience a lot in life have little taste in things.”
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“"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.”
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Blackbookmag interview http://www.blackbookmag.com/movies/paz-de-la-huerta-bares-all-1.28620
“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.”
Science and Spirit interview (2004)
Context: A great many people say we have language and imagination to posit creators, interveners, and agencies that we can't actually prove. And yet some people experience God within them--these experiences are not drawn-up hypotheses. It's possible those of us who don't feel God within them have deficient brains that aren't capable of such experiences; or alternatively, the people who experience these things have brains that somehow create them. As near as I can tell, the jury is out on that. I may be a non-theist who doesn't include a god concept in my religious orientation because I have an incompetent brain, or perhaps theists have brains giving them inaccurate information.
“It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”
Malcolm Gladwell (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. p. 198
“So if that little thing can do so much, who knows what else we can experience?”
Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?
Context: A friend told me that there are these clean and sober dykes that have piercings every couple months just to get high. It's about learning about my body. I didn't know my body could do this. It's not exactly pleasure. It's more like vision. I didn't know the body is such a visionary factory.
Basically we grew up not wanting to know that we had bodies. And it's not as if these piercings are in that deep — it's just on the surface. So if that little thing can do so much, who knows what else we can experience?