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
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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