There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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