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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

William S. Burroughs

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
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World
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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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
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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Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
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
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Myself Sleep Togetherness Way
If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise Yourself
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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Hell Myself People Police Weapon
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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Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
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’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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Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop

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