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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

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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Death Dreams People Society
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
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
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Body Himself Learning Mindset Work
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone Yourself
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
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
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
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
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
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
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Hell Myself People Police Weapon

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