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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.
Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.
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.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
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.
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony.
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
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