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.
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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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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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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 bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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