There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAs soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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 is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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