As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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.
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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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