When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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