Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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The world is now a virus.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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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
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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