After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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