After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The world is now a virus.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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