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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

William S. Burroughs

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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Alien Appearance Funny Manager Myself Planet See Space Yourself
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise Yourself
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Comfortable Dedication Hate Production

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