As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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