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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

William S. Burroughs

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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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Act Areas Explorer Myself Point Space Survey Writing
Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Information Myself Right
(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
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
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
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
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Future Leak Present Yourself
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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Forever Life Time Waste Yourself
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
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
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Desperate Escape Hope Material 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

Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
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
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Afford Energy Life Pleasure relief Spiritual
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal

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