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. 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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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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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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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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