By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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There 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.
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