You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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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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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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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