Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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 cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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