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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.

William S. Burroughs

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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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Comfortable Dedication Hate Production
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
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
If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise Yourself
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
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence Yourself
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Emerge Flaw Photograph Truth
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
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Allow Business Mindset Nation Sarcasm Thankful
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
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
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
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
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
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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Forever Life Time Waste Yourself

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