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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

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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
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
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Escape Possible Prison 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.
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Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
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
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Defeat Hustle Level Mark 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
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
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
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
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
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
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
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself

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