Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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 I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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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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