A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Your 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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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