Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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