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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

William S. Burroughs

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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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