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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

William S. Burroughs

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Afford Energy Life Pleasure relief Spiritual
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Escape Possible Prison Yourself
There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Control Image Machine
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Dreams Place Practice
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Forever Life Time Waste Yourself
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Future Leak Present Yourself
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

People Silence Verbal
Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Home Learning Move Yourself
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creation Imagination Live Myself World
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself

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