Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLove? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Do 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.
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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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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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