Life is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAs soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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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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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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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(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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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