Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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