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(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.

William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
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
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Desperate Escape Hope Material Yourself
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Cat Growth Myself People Preference
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
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
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
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
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
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Afford Energy Life Pleasure relief Spiritual
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence Yourself
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
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
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Alone Yourself

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