Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. -William S. Burroughs

 

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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

William S. Burroughs

A functioning police state needs no police.

William S. Burroughs

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.

William S. Burroughs

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

William S. Burroughs