If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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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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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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