Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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