People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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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.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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.
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