There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Whether 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.
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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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