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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe world is now a virus.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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