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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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