I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The world is now a virus.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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