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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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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
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
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Accident Magical Universe Willing
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Answer Learning Mindset Question Relax Yourself
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Escape Possible Prison 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
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Alien Appearance Funny Manager Myself Planet See Space Yourself
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alone Country Existence Learning Live Religion Silence Yourself
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
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Emerge Flaw Photograph Truth
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present 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
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
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
(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
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
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph 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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking

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