A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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