If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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