You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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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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