I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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