I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPeople 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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