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
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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 isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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