I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you stop growing you start dying.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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The world is now a virus.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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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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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.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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