There are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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 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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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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