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The face of evil is always the face of total need.

William S. Burroughs

What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Dominant Face Hate Hide Hope Horrible Planet Spiritual Stupidity
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
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
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine
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.
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Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People Silence Verbal
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
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
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 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
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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Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Death Dreams People Society
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Emerge Flaw Photograph Truth
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
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

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