The world is now a virus.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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