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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

William S. Burroughs

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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
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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Hell Myself People Police Weapon
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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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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Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
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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Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Business Mindset Yourself
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Cat Growth Myself People Preference
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
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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Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
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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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Defeat Hustle Level Mark Yourself
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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