William S. Burroughs on police
William S. Burroughs85 quotes“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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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs The simplest questions are the most difficult.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs 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.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs 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.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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