When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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