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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

William S. Burroughs

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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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