After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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The world is now a virus.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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