I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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