If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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What 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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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