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.
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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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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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The world is now a virus.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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