Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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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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