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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.

William S. Burroughs

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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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Drugs Feeling Yourself
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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.
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Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
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
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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine

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