Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf 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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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The world is now a virus.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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