Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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