We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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