Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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