Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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 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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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