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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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