Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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