I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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