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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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