The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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