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«The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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affect, bitten, dogma, murdered, primitive, run into, snake, viewpoint, viewpoints
«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.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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admittedly, as a matter of fact, boot, conditioned, experimental, for that matter, heterosexual, heterosexuals, homo, homosexual, react, sexually, subjects, subject matter
«Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.»
«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.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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Living,
Society,
Weapons
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allowed, guns, military, police, policed, policing, shooting, shootings, spree, The Military, The Police
«If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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mortality, mortality rate, Mother Nature, rate, ruthless, Second Chance, survival
«Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.»
«Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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American Dream, bare, falsified, falsifies, falsify, falsifying, vulgarize, vulgarized
«Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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client, consumer, degrades, junk, merchandise, merchant, sells, simplifies, simplify, The Client
«Language is a virus from outer space.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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outer space
«Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
beg, Beg to, client, crawl, junk, merchandise, sales, sales talk, sewer, sewers, The Client
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