When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDo not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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