In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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