Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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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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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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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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 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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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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 is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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