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Thou shalt not be such a shit, you don't know you are one.

— William S. Burroughs

More from William S. Burroughs

  1. There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no good reason.
  2. Thou shalt not blow pot-smoke into the face of my pet. Say's whom who want's to get high.
  3. There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
  4. Thou shalt not drop an atom bomb or even shit one out in the first place - I'm talking to you, Robert Oppenheimer.
  5. There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
  6. 'Treatment is symptomatic' - which means in the trade there is none.
  7. The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half' is a seperate organism…
  8. When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.

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Topics in this quote

  • morality
  • behavior
  • ethics
  • humility
  • self awareness

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