Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Most 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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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