I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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