When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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