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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

William S. Burroughs

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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
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Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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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
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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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
Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Information Myself Right
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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Drugs Feeling Yourself
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Escape Possible Prison Yourself
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.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
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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