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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Emerge Flaw Photograph Truth
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
(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
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

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

Fiction Story Word
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
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
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
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Dreams Place Practice
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Language One Liner Space Virus
There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Desperate Escape Hope Material Yourself
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Cancer Sick Society

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