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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLanguage is a virus from outer space.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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