A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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