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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.

William S. Burroughs

There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Death Dreams People Society
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Mindset Yourself
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
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
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Drugs Feeling 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
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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Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Act Advantage Himself Man
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Creation Imagination Live Myself World
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Burden Hate Ignorance Knowledge Love Prejudice Presence Proud Sincere Threat Yourself
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
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
The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Gun Innocent People Weapon

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