Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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The world is now a virus.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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