Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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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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