Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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The world is now a virus.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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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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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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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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