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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs

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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Face Fact Government Insane Leadership Worse
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
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
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
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
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Information Myself Right
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Alive Alone Yourself
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
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
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
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
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
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
What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Dominant Face Hate Hide Hope Horrible Planet Spiritual Stupidity
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
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
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return

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