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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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