In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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