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.
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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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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