If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPeople have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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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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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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