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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.

William S. Burroughs

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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
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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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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Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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