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• as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

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  Prison, Possibility, Knows

  William S Burroughs (2012). “My Education: A Book of Dreams”, p.211, Penguin UK

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

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  Black, Magic, Casual

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Writing, Mean

  "Ales Kot's highly ambitious Zero explores the deep roots of violence" by Shea Hennum and Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2015.

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• The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

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  Love, Hippie, Flower

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA

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

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  Evil, Needs, Faces

  William S Burroughs (2015). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

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  Shadow Of Death, People, Saying Nothing

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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

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  Hipster, Men, Acting

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• In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

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  Boredom, Deviants, Dies

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

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  Fear, Atheism, Looks

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• Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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  Truth

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.435, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

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  Bystanders, Firsts, Innocent

  "'In the Shadows' ('Gali Guliyan'): Film Review" by eborah Young, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 23, 2017.

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• I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.

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  Christian, Falling In Love, Sex

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• There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

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  Addiction, Drug, Feelings

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• The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

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  Reality, Way, Faces

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

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  Machines

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.199, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

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  Needs, Anemia, Like You

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• Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

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  War, Victory, Purpose

  "The Place of Dead Roads".

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• Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

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  Superficial, Relative

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are no innocent bystanders.

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  Bystanders, Innocent

  William S. Burroughs (1973). “Exterminator!: A novel”, Viking Pr

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• If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

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  Live Life, Alive, Life Is

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• NOTHING happens by coincidence.

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  Coincidence, Happens

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• By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

  William S. Burroughs

  Flaws

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.53, Grove Press

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• Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

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  Jesus, Fruit, Christ

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• Life is a vacation from two eternities.

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  Vacation, Two, Life Is

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• I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

  William S. Burroughs

  Creating, World, Imaginary

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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