After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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 is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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