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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.

William S. Burroughs

There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Innocence Passenger Place
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Drugs Feeling Yourself
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Boredom Country Die
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Law Question Start Stop
There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Hallucination Impact Reality Symbol World
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Escape Possible Prison Yourself
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Forever Life Time Waste Yourself
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Myself Sleep Togetherness Way
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Bad Best Possible Refusal Time Way Yourself
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Future Leak Present Yourself
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics

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