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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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