William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.
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Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
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In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.
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The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.
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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
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Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.
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Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.
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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.
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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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I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.
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Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.