There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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