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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.

William S. Burroughs

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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
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
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
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
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
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
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone Yourself
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Myself Sleep Togetherness Way
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
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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself

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