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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.

William S. Burroughs

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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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