I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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