The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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