I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDesperation 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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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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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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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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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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