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.
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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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 began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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The world is now a virus.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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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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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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