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.
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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The world is now a virus.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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