Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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