Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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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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