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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

William S. Burroughs

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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Escape Possible Prison Yourself
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
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
When you stop growing you start dying.
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Death Growth Stop Yourself
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
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
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
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
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 are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Alien Appearance Funny Manager Myself Planet See Space Yourself
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Body Himself Learning Mindset Work
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
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
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
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
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 miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
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
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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Hell Myself People Police Weapon
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
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden 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
The world is now a virus.
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One Liner Virus World

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