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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.

William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Alien Appearance Funny Manager Myself Planet See Space Yourself
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
(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.
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Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Existence 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
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
If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise Yourself
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Myself Sleep Togetherness Way
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
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
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
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.
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Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics

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