Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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(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.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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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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