You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSArtists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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