What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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