There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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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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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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