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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPolitical conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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