If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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The 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.
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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 am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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