The 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
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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 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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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The world is now a virus.
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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 have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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