Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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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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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.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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