Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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 best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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