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William S. Burroughs

"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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"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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"No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!"

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"By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society."

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"Just change your attitude and perception to change your life."

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"If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself."

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"All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary."

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"If you want to change anything or your surroundings, change your perception; it will change everything."

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"Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say."

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"Life is ever changing. We are ever transforming."

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"I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me."

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"Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results."

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"A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live human being has moved out of these bodies long ago. But something moved in when the original tenant moved out."
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"Two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws."
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"As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle."
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"I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."
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"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
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"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
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