Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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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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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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