The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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The world is now a virus.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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