Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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