I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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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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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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