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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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