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" A functioning police state needs no police. "
William S. Burroughs
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" No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. "
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" Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. "
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" Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. "
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" Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. "
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" A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. "
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" Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. "
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" Nothing is true, everything is permitted. "
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" No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. "
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" If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. "
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" In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. "
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" Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. "
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" The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do. "
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" Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. "
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" I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts. "
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" Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.' "
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" Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. "
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" Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. "
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" My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. "
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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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" Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. "
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