I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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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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