Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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