Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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