The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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The world is now a virus.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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 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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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