There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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