Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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