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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs

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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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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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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.
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