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.
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 am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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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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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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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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