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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

William S. Burroughs

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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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Afford Energy Life Pleasure relief Spiritual
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
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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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