As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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