Open your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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