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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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.
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