Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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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 don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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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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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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