When you stop growing you start dying.
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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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