Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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