After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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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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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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