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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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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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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 am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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