I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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The world is now a virus.
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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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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