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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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