After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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People 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.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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