You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLove? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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 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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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