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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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