When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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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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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.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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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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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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The world is now a virus.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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