A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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