As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMan is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything 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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