There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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