I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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The world is now a virus.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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