The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe world is now a virus.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The world is now a virus.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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