There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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 no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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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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