Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHe who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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The world is now a virus.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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