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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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 I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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