Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSArtists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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The world is now a virus.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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