There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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 are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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