Paranoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The world is now a virus.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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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.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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