Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat 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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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.
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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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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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.
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