Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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