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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.

William S. Burroughs

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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
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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Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Gun Innocent People Weapon
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Future Leak Present Yourself
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Forever Life Philosophy Vacation
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artifact Design Man Present Science Space Travel
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
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing

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