There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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