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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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