You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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 are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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