Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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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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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.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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