Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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