The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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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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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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