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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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