If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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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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The world is now a virus.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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