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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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