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Born: 1914-02-05
Profession: Writer
Nation: American
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

Tags: Money, Old, Woman

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Tags: Education, Knowledge, Values

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

Tags: Necessary, Talk, Ultimate

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Tags: Arbitrary

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Tags: Black, Effective, Magic

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

Tags: Ethic, Possible, Wants

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.

Tags: Present, State, Travel

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

Tags: Cats, Pet, Pure

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Tags: Perhaps, Pleasure, Relief

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Tags: Fake, Good, Quality

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Tags: Knowledge, Relative

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

Tags: Control, Images, Machine

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.

Tags: Care, Dreams, Off

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

Tags: After, Hell, Society

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Tags: Learning, Mind, Wait

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Tags: After, Manager, Space

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Tags: Change, Hope, Leave

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Tags: Change, Mind, Political

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Tags: Knows, Paranoid, Someone

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Tags: Conformity, Dedicated, Hate

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Tags: Happiness, Victory, War

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.

Tags: Business, Mind, Trouble

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Tags: Deep, Sad, Sadness

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

Tags: Alcohol, National, Special

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Tags: Facts, Paranoia, Sometimes
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Tags: Acting, Himself, Inside

Language is a virus from outer space.

Tags: Language, Space, Virus

A functioning police state needs no police.

Tags: Needs, Police, State

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

Tags: Far, Getting, Won

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

Tags: Dead, Dream, Society

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

Tags: Acting, Point, Writing

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

Tags: Done, Means

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Tags: Beat, Cannot, Inside

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Tags: Evil, Face, Total

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

Tags: Care, Love, Wants
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