Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The world is now a virus.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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