Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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