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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

~William S. Burroughs

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

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You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 5th, 1914

Died: August 2nd, 1997

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