Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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