Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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.
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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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