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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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