There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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