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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.

William S. Burroughs

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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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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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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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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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