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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSArtists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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