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Life is a vacation from two eternities.

William S. Burroughs

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
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
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Act Advantage Himself Man
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
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
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
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone Yourself
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Gun Innocent People Weapon
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
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 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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Burden Hate Ignorance Knowledge Love Prejudice Presence Proud Sincere Threat Yourself
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
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
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself

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