I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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