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William S. Burroughs

"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."

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"Take your million smiles through billion miles, life will never get boring for you even for a while."

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"A joyful life, life of contentment."

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"If you follow your heart, you will always find happiness."

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"Pleasure is different from "happiness". It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!"

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"Amazing life, a joyful journey."

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"Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God."

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"If you have enjoyed something, but have never experienced joy, then u have not really been happy."

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"Most sane human beings' chances of being alive in a thousand years' time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days."

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"Worries are wasted energies. You can have a joyful life when you let go of your worries."

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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
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"The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
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"Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive."
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"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."
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"All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him."
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"Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes."
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"Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear."
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"Oh be careful! There they go again!" said the old queen as his string broke spilling his balls over the floor.... "Stop them will you, James, you worthless old shit! Don't just stand there and let the master's balls roll into the coal-bin!"
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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
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