Political 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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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