The world is now a virus.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMan 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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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