Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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