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Language is a virus from outer space.

William S. Burroughs

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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.
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Artifact Design Man Present Science Space Travel
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.
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Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Afraid Face Meaning People Shadow
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Deep Hard Time Heaven Hell Live Man Realize Yourself
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Creation Imagination Live Myself World
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Escape Possible Prison Yourself

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