There are no innocent bystanders.
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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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 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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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