If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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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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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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