Open your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I 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.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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