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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

William S. Burroughs

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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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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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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Face Fact Government Insane Leadership Worse
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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Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Language One Liner Space Virus
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence Yourself
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Body Himself Learning Mindset Work
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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Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
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
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
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
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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Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Business Mindset Yourself
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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Artifact Design Man Present Science Space Travel
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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