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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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The world is now a virus.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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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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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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