As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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