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I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.
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Anything that can be accomplished chemically can be accomplished in other ways.
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The Ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls." Top soul (Vicarious), and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren the Secret name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that's where Ren came in. Second soul (Jambi), and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: Energy, Power. LIGHT. The Director gives the orders, Sekem pr..
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Wouldn't you?
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A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands--the lymph glands that is, of course--when the baneful word seared my reeling brain: . I thought of the painted, simpering female impersonators I'd seen in a Baltimore nightclub. Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things? I walked the streets in a daze like a man with a..
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I tried more than once to tell you, to communicate what I know. You did not or could not listen. You can not show to anyone what he has not seen.
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After the shot he collapsed on the bed and lay there inert, but something was stirring in his spine from neck to the tail - and now pieces tore loose in the eggs and then a red, glistening head emerges in reeking yellow slime - and then the whole centipede crawling out quick.
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If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.
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I spit on the Christian God. When the White God arrived with the Spaniards, the Indians brought down fruit and corncakes and chocolate. The White Christian God proceeded to cut their hands off. He was not responsible for the Christian conquistadors? Yes, he was. Any God is responsible for his worshippers.
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The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host.
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There is a kidney-shaped fish pool outside the picture window. I cleaned it out and put in some large goldfish I bought in a bait store. The cats are always trying to catch the fish, with no success. One time the white cat leapt for a frog across the pool. The frog dove in and the cat fell in. He is trouble-prone.
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Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE.
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A ghost in daylight on a crowded street.
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Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.
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Junk is surrounded by magic and taboos, curses and amulets.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.
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A functioning police state needs no police.
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
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Sit down on your ass, or what's left of it after four years in the navy."
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No job too dirty for a fucking scientist.
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