He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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