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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

William S. Burroughs

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
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
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
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
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Home Learning Move Yourself
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
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alien Appearance Funny Manager Myself Planet See Space Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Dominant Face Hate Hide Hope Horrible Planet Spiritual Stupidity
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Act Areas Explorer Myself Point Space Survey Writing
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

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