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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOpen your mind and let the pictures out
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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