There are no innocent bystanders.
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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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