Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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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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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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