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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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The world is now a virus.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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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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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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