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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Defeat Hustle Level Mark Yourself
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
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
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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Afraid Face Meaning People Shadow
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
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
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
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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Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
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
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
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Accident Magical Universe Willing
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Avoid Future Person Time 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
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Creation Imagination Live Myself World
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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective

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