A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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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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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.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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