A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAs soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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