Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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