How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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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 best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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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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