In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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The world is now a virus.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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