There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLanguage is a virus from outer space.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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