If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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The world is now a virus.
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