Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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