There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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The world is now a virus.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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