When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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