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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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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.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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