No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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