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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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 am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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