Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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 paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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