Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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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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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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