There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHome 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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