After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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The world is now a virus.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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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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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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