After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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