Consumers Quote by William S. Burroughs

“A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.”

William S. Burroughs

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“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.”

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“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.”

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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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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.…

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When you stop growing you start dying.

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Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .…

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When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

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“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing…

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“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts; thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison; thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger; thanks for vast…

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“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig, farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard. Bubbly, thick, stagnant sound. A sound you could smell. This man worked for the carnival,you dig? And to start with it was like a novelty…

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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

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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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