Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you stop growing you start dying.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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