Malcolm Azania Quotes

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We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it's time to get up.

Malcolm Azania
When dysfunctional self-distraction devolves into delusional self-destruction, neurosis turns into psychosis.

Malcolm Azania
The history of human development can neatly be divided into two epochs: (1) the feminine, yin, agro-sedentary pastoral idyll of the old-to-late Paleolithic Mother-Earth-Goddess religions and (2) the masculine, yang, technomobile hunter-gatherer-warrior field effect of urbanized, late-Neolithic-to-Modern Father-Sky-God religions.

Malcolm Azania
It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.

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All organic. No chemicals here, no way. The red globe grapes, $8.99 a kilo. I take a pawful, pop em, one at a time. They crunch. This is my only wine. This is my Sunday sacrament... sweet and honest and decent. No lies from chemists, or from priests.
You wanna heal your soul? Step one is healing your soil.

Malcolm Azania
I'm not saying Hamza's cheap, but if the only thing standing between our solar system and a fleet of intergalactic enslavers was Hamza's wallet crunched inside his fist, we'd all be drilling methane wells on Pluto right now.

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The two former lovers finally looked at each other, their faces crawling with the crabs of conflicting emotion.

Malcolm Azania
Babydoll, when ain'nuthin funny, eat what's sweet. That's my philosophy.

Malcolm Azania
You know, in my experience, said Kareem, caging his fingers and drawing out his words, the jokers... who talk the most about 'playing the race card'... are the people who own all the diamonds... who've picked up the clubs... to beat down the spades... because they've got no heart.

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Sky's so big and dazzling and buzzing and crackling and moaning with all that black silence, I feel like my skull is open to space, all that way-beyond soaking directly into my brain. Stars and stars and stars... some of em planets, some of em satellites. All of em out there, alone, untouchable.

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How odd—disturbing, in fact—to hear someone address a god with such profane irreverence. But I suppose that the history of mythology is nothing if not proof that celestials are the instructors of man's worst sins.

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Thursday is practically Friday and Friday is Friday.

Malcolm Azania
The self-delusion that mysterious forces and persons unknown are conspiring against us is, surprisingly, a comforting belief, because it means we're significant enough in this anarchic world to warrant someone's enmity. That delusion saves us from the far more difficult to accept reality: that we're not that important to anyone. That the universe just isn't into us.
Paranoia is the emotive-psychestructure's response to feeling ignored, unloved, or forgotten in an existence filled with random acts of destructive indifference emphasizing the inherent futility of life and struggle. If you're ever to achieve serenity, ultimately you must accept that in such a vast cosmos, you simply don't matter very much.

Malcolm Azania