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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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.
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Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
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’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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.
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Change Home Learning Move Yourself
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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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