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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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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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