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    Brion Gysin
    “some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor. Splat!”
    ― Brion Gysin
    tags: brion, british, burroughs, english, france, gysin
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    Brion Gysin
    “Man is a bad animal....”
    ― Brion Gysin, Here to Go: Planet R-101
    tags: brion, british, burroughs, english, france, gysin
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    William S. Burroughs
    “when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: burroughs, city, dead, death, radio, william
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    Brion Gysin
    “The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.”
    ― Brion Gysin
    tags: code, contamination, cut-ups, fiction, language, word
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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
    ― Louis-Ferdinand Celine
    tags: rapture
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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “...the new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account...”
    ― Louis Ferdinand Celine
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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. ”
    ― Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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    Jean Cocteau
    “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? ”
    ― Jean Cocteau
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    Jean Cocteau
    “An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
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    Jean Cocteau
    “Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: humor, mirrors, relativity
    296 likes

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    Jean Cocteau
    “The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: drugs, opium, scent
    42 likes

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  • #16
    Jean Cocteau
    “It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
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  • #17
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “If I had a soul I sold it
    for pretty words
    If I had a body I used
    it up spurting my essence

    Allen Ginsberg warns you
    dont follow my path
    to extinction”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: allen-ginsberg, beat, poet, poetry
    215 likes

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    John Kennedy Toole
    “The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”
    ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
    tags: fear
    164 likes

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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour
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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'

    One grand boulevard with trees
    with one grand cafe in sun
    with strong black coffee in very small cups.

    One not necessarily very beautiful
    man or woman who loves you.

    One fine day.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: happiness, poetry
    175 likes

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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: journalist, truth
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

    Remembered line from a long-
    forgotten poem”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
    718 likes

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    Gary Snyder
    “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
    ― Gary Snyder
    tags: conservation, home, nature
    779 likes

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    Gary Snyder
    “In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!”
    ― Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
    tags: books, culture, elders, grandparents, western-culture
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
    tags: class-struggle, war
    1182 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
    4533 likes

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  • #30
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “We are our choices.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: choices
    1529 likes



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