How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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 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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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