If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you stop growing you start dying.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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