I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything 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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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