Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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