Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHome 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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