There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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