Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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?
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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