No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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 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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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