The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhether 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.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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