There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSmash the control images. Smash the control machine.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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