The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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