Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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