Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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