If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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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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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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