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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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