There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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