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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

William S. Burroughs

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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality 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 you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise Yourself
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph 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
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
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Face Fact Government Insane Leadership Worse
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
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
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Cancer Sick Society
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Control Image Machine
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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Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
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
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Emerge Flaw Photograph Truth
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
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
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
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
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
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
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
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
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

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