Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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