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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.

William S. Burroughs

There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Death Dreams People Society
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
(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.
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Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Death Growth Stop Yourself
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
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
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Consumer Production Simplicity Society
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Gun Innocent People Weapon
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Comfortable Dedication Hate Production
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Black Effective Magic Operate
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Accident Magical Universe Willing

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