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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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