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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

William S. Burroughs

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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
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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Act Areas Explorer Myself Point Space Survey Writing
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
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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Accident Magical Universe Willing
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
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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Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Afraid Face Meaning People Shadow
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Burden Hate Ignorance Knowledge Love Prejudice Presence Proud Sincere Threat Yourself
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Business Mindset Yourself
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Desperate Escape Hope Material Yourself
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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Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself
Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Language One Liner Space Virus
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Cancer Sick Society
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Creation Imagination Live Myself World
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Gun Innocent People Weapon
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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Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
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
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Hell Myself People Police Weapon
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself
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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Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World

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