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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Cancer Sick Society
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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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

Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
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
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Act Areas Explorer Myself Point Space Survey Writing
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone Yourself
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence Yourself

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