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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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