A Quote by Terence McKenna
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
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The proper artistic response to digital technology is to
embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally
human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy
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