You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLanguage is a virus from outer space.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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