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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…
β€” William S. Burroughs
Tags: philosophy, individuality, creativity, art

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This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
β€” William S. Burroughs
Tags: universe, time, war, nature
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
β€” William S. Burroughs
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The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
β€” William S. Burroughs
Tags: place, more, world, man
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
β€” William S. Burroughs
Tags: going, only, your, knowledge
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.
β€” William S. Burroughs
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