If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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