Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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