I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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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.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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