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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

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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.
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Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself
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
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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Emerge Flaw Photograph Truth
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
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
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Answer Learning Mindset Question Relax Yourself
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
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
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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Hell Myself People Police Weapon
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
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
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
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
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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