There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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(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 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’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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