Life is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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 cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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