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" Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. "
William S. Burroughs
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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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" An addict never stops growing. Stupider. "
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" Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. "
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" Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. "
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" Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. "
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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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" Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. "
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" After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' "
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" How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. "
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" 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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" The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. "
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" You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. "
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" No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. "
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" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "
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" A functioning police state needs no police. "
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