A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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