By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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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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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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