Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDo not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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 simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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