The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPolitical conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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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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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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