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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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