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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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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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