When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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