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" In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. "

William S. Burroughs

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

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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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" Language is a virus from outer space. "

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" A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. "

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" Nothing is true, everything is permitted. "

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" Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. "

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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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" 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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" Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. "

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" I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts. "

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" Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. "

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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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" Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.' "

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

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