Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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