I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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