Life is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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The world is now a virus.
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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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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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