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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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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
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
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
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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Deep Hard Time Heaven Hell Live Man Realize 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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Artifact Design Man Present Science Space Travel
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
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
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
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence 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
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
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World
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
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
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
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Information Myself Right
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
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself

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