Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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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 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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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