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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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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
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Creation Imagination Live Myself World
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise Yourself
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop 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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Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Alien Appearance Funny Manager Myself Planet See Space Yourself
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Comfortable Dedication Hate Production
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
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Act Advantage Himself Man
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
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
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
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.
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Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone Yourself
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Cancer Sick Society
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
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
(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
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Business Mindset Yourself
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

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