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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

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Fiction Story Word
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone 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
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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present 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
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Control Image Machine
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Hell Myself People Police Weapon
(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
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself

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