I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPeople have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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 am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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