If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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(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.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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