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    Robert  Stone
    “The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole in South America can have something they can't? Like shit, man. If the little guy in the hole can be a revolutionary, they can be revolutionaries too.”
    Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers

  • #2
    William S. Burroughs
    “The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
    William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

  • #3
    William S. Burroughs
    “Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.”
    William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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    Terence McKenna
    “Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
    Terence McKenna

  • #5
    Terence McKenna
    “You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”
    Terence McKenna

  • #6
    Don DeLillo
    “The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”
    Don DeLillo, White Noise

  • #7
    Don DeLillo
    “It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”
    Don DeLillo, White Noise

  • #8
    Don DeLillo
    “Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets. ”
    Don DeLillo, The Day Room

  • #9
    [We] saw products as garbage even when they sat gleaming on store shelves, yet unbought.
    “[We] saw products as garbage even when they sat gleaming on store shelves, yet unbought. We didn't say, What kind of casserole will that make? We said, What kind of garbage will that make?”
    Don DeLillo, Underworld

  • #10
    Thomas Pynchon
    “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

  • #11
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Why should things be easy to understand?”
    Thomas Pynchon

  • #12
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”
    Thomas Pynchon

  • #13
    Thomas Pynchon
    “A screaming comes across the sky.”
    Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

  • #14
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #15
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

  • #16
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

  • #17
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We can't stop here, this is bat country!”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  • #18
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  • #19
    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #20
    Jack Kerouac
    “The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #21
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #22
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #24
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

  • #25
    Cormac McCarthy
    “The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited

  • #26
    Jonathan Lethem
    “My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.”
    Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table

  • #27
    Don DeLillo
    “It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams. ― Don DeLillo, Americana (ACTES SUD; 0 edition, August 10, 1993)”
    Don DeLillo, Américana

  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #31
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness



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