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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers."
"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
"I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here!"
"Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes."
"There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot "continuity... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer..."
"A junkie runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. A sick junkie has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait."
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