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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.

William S. Burroughs

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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The world is now a virus.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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