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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

William S. Burroughs

The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Escape Possible Prison Yourself
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
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.
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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
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
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
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
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
(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
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Burden Hate Ignorance Knowledge Love Prejudice Presence Proud Sincere Threat Yourself

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