The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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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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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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