I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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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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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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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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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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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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