Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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The world is now a virus.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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