Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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