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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

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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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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone Yourself
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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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.
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Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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