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. BURROUGHSWhat does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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