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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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