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Junkies have no interest in sex and they have no interest in other people except as suppliers of junk. They go around looking younger for a few days. Then they need more.

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I don't make myself work. It's just the thing I want to do. To be completely alone in a room, to know that there'll be no interruptions and I've got eight hours is exactly what I want -- yeah, just paradise.

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Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand, to make the Pass.

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A functioning police state needs no police.

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When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.

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I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. . . . I did absolutely nothing.

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Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

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Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

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In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.

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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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My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age.

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If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

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To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason.

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Dream long and dream hard enoughYou will come to knowDreaming can make it so . . .

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All the filth and horror, fear, hate disease and death of human history flows between you and the Western Lands.

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They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

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Never give succor to the mentally ill it is a bottomless pit.

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And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.

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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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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

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The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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The youth rebellion 1968 is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down and be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.

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Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat the Mark Inside.

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No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.

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