A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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