Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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 don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The world is now a virus.
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