Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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 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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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