When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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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.
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