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Kit James
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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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William S. Burroughs
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“I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”
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William S. Burroughs
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“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.”
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William S. Burroughs
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#4
“L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.”
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Franz Kafka
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#5
“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
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David Sedaris,
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
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#6
“But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick further in.”
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tim burton
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#7
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
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Sylvia Plath,
The Bell Jar
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neurosis
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#8
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
―
Sylvia Plath,
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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#9
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
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Douglas Adams,
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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atheism
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#10
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
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Douglas Adams,
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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atheism
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