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.
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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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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 simplest questions are the most difficult.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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 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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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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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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In 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.
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