Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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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 am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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