Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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 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’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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