Open your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow 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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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