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Quotes from The Adding Machine: Collected Essays — William S. Burroughs

1914–1997 United States

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All modern systems are riddled with contradictions.

The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)

A government is never more dangerous than when embarking on a self-defeating or downright suicidal course.

The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)

Concession is another control bind. History shows that once a government starts to make concessions it is on a one-way street.

The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)

Any imposition of government censorship on the media is a step in the direction of State control, a step which big money is most reluctant to take.

The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)

My advice is to get a good agent and a good tax accountant if you ever make any money, and remember, you can't eat fame. And you can't write unless you want to write, and you can't want to unless you feel like it.

The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)

Brainwashing, psychotropic drugs, lobotomy, and other more subtle form of psychosurgery; the technocratic control apparatus of the United States has at its fingertips new techniques if which fully exploited could make Orwell's 1984 seem like a benevolent utopia.

The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William S. Burroughs (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.