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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

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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Myself Sleep Togetherness Way
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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present 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
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
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.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
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

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