When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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(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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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