A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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