If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS(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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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 world is now a virus.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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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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