I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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