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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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