Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you stop growing you start dying.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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