People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAs soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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 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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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