There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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