As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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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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