If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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 definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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