How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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