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.
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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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People 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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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 are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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