Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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