I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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