Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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