There are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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