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
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMost 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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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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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures 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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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