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" Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. "
William S. Burroughs
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. "
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" Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. "
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" A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. "
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" A functioning police state needs no police. "
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" In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. "
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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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" Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. "
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" The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. "
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" In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. "
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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 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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" I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. "
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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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" Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. "
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" Language is a virus from outer space. "
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" Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. "
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