There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn 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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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 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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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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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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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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