Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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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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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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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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