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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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