I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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