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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I 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.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Man 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.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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