There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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