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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf, 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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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 I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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