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William S. Burroughs

"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."

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"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."

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"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."

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"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."

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"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."

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"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."

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"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."

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"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."

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