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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

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
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
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
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Body Himself Learning Mindset Work
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden 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.
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Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
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.
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Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Hell Myself People Police Weapon
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 isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Home Learning Move Yourself

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