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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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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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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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The world is now a virus.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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