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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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