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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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