A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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 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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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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