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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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