Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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