When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter 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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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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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(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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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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.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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There 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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