There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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I 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.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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The world is now a virus.
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