By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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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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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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