I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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