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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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