Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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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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(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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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, What are they doing there in the first place?
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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