When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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