The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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