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“Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.”

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Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.”

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Author:Andrew Breitbart

“I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.”

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Author:Juliana Hatfield

“There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”

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Author:Joko Beck

“To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.”

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Book:Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

“The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.”

“I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.”

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Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?”

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Author:Tom T. Hall