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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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The world is now a virus.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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