How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere 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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Open your mind and let the pictures 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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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