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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhether 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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(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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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