Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSParanoia is just having the right information.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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