There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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