In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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 cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The world is now a virus.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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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