In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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The world is now a virus.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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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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(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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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