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" Nothing is true, everything is permitted. "

William S. Burroughs

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

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

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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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" Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. "

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" Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. "

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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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" Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. "

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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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" The face of evil is always the face of total need. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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