In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
-
-
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Paranoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS