We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhether 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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The world is now a virus.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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