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.
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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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 is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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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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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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Most 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.
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