You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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