There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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The world is now a virus.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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