Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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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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