Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMost of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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