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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.

William S. Burroughs

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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Answer Learning Mindset Question Relax Yourself
What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Dominant Face Hate Hide Hope Horrible Planet Spiritual Stupidity
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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
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
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Comfortable Dedication Hate Production
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Cat Growth Myself People Preference
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
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
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
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
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
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
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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Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Defeat Hustle Level Mark 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
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
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
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop

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