After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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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
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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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 paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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