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. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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