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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Fact Information
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence Yourself
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 isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Allow Business Mindset Nation Sarcasm Thankful
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Hell Myself People Police Weapon
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
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
(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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy 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
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset

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