A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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