I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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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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