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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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