Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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 are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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