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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

William S. Burroughs

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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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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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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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