Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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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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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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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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