There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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Whether 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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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The world is now a virus.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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