Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe world is now a virus.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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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.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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