Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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