I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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