Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do 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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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