There are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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 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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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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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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