Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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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 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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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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