There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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