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.
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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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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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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