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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

William S. Burroughs

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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Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Allow Business Mindset Nation Sarcasm Thankful
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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Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
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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Cat Growth Myself People Preference
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Change Home Learning Move Yourself
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
The world is now a virus.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

One Liner Virus World
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface 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.
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Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creation Imagination Live Myself World
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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Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
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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Afraid Face Meaning People Shadow
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
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Emerge Flaw Photograph Truth

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