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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSmash the control images. Smash the control machine.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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