There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAs soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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I 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.
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