Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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(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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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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