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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.

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
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
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
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
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
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Avoid Future Person Time 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
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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Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
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
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Alien Appearance Funny Manager Myself Planet See Space Yourself
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
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
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself

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