If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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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 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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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