A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLanguage is a virus from outer space.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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