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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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