Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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 I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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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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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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