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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSmash the control images. Smash the control machine.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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