Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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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