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William S. Burroughs has 224 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope…
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Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and…
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My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
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Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
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If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is…
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Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward
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Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile…
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