Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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People 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.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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 all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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