I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPolitical 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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