Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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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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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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