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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.

William S. Burroughs

There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Death Dreams People Society
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creation Imagination Live Myself World
There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
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
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Alone Yourself
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Drugs Feeling Yourself
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Face Fact Government Insane Leadership Worse
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Existence Yourself
Open your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Mindset Open Photograph 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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Boredom Country Die
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Accident Magical Universe Willing

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