Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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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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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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