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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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