Open your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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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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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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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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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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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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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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