Life is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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