Food For Thought

A Collection of Heretical Notions and Wretched Adages
compiled by Jack Tourette

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This page gathers some favorite quotations, excerpts, stories, etc. that are too long to fit into the general collection, or which are not easily categorized.


The Child Mandrake by Manfred Kyber.

They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer.

Charlie Chaplin's speech from The Great Dictator.

John Steinbeck writes about the world's story.

From a speech by Kurt Vonnegut regarding a more generally applied Hippocratic oath.

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov.

The Drug War's True Failure and the Yearning for a Deeper Self by Mike Young

Does writing about heroin use glamorize it? by Ann Marlowe

Tom Robbins writes about time and the afterlife

ITSOFOMO is a powerfully moving diatribe about AIDS

Two views of Ronald Reagan, one from Oliver Sacks "The President's Speech", 1985, the other from J.G. Ballard's Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, 1990.

The Story of My Life is one person's amazingly bleak view of life.

Time Zones explains why some places have time zones 30 or 15 minutes off the neighboring zone.

Print these Rules For Radicals, they might come in handy.

What Fundamentalists Need for Their Salvation by David James Duncan

Rhinoceros Sutta

Who articulated "Murphy's Law"?

Wilson's War Message

Torture's Long Shadow by Vladimir Bukovsky

Keating on Porn

You should read Milton Mayer's Commencement Address even if you're long out of school.

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Last update: 03-July-2015
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