Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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 couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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