If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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