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" No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. "
William S. Burroughs
Life
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" Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. "
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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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" Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. "
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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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" 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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" Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. "
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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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" No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. "
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" If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. "
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" Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. "
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" Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. "
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" Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. "
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" A functioning police state needs no police. "
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" An addict never stops growing. Stupider. "
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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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" 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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