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. BURROUGHSThe 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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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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