He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe world is now a virus.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything 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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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(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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