When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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