There are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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 couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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.
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