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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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