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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

William S. Burroughs

I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Burden Hate Ignorance Knowledge Love Prejudice Presence Proud Sincere Threat Yourself
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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Artifact Design Man Present Science Space Travel
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
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
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
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
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 cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
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
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Death Dreams People Society
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
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
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone 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
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Answer Learning Mindset Question Relax 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
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Cancer Sick Society
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Dominant Face Hate Hide Hope Horrible Planet Spiritual Stupidity
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
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
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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Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
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

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