Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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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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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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The world is now a virus.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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