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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.

William S. Burroughs

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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
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop 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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
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
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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Hell Myself People Police Weapon
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
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
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
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Business Mindset Yourself
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Cancer Sick Society
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
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Face Fact Government Insane Leadership Worse
Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Change Home Learning Move Yourself
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Allow Business Mindset Nation Sarcasm Thankful
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
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 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

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