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

William S. Burroughs

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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
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
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.
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Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Cancer Sick Society
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alone Country Existence Learning Live Religion Silence Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
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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Deep Hard Time Heaven Hell Live Man Realize Yourself
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Defeat Hustle Level Mark Yourself
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Fact Information
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Act Advantage Himself Man
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Drugs Feeling Yourself

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