Paranoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPeople have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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