Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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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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(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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