Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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The world is now a virus.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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