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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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