No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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