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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDesperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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