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.
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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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