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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHe who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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