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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

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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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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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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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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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
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Alone Country Existence Learning Live Religion Silence Yourself
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
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling 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
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World

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