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" An addict never stops growing. Stupider. "

William S. Burroughs

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" Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. "

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" The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. "

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" Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation. "

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" No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. "

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" This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. "

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" Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. "

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" My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. "

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" Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. "

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" Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. "

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" It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. "

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" Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. "

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" You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. "

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" Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. "

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" Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. "

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" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "

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" 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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" Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. "

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" Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. "

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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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" Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. "

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" The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. "

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" Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear. "

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