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. BURROUGHSThere is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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 am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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