No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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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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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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