I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere 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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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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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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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