There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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