There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSmash the control images. Smash the control machine.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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