There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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 am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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