Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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The world is now a virus.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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