For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.


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Take my counsel, happy man; / Act upon it, if you can!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a d...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he us...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
A Nazi initiation into the upper reaches of the SS was to gouge out the eye of a pet cat after feedi...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want...
WILLIAM S. WILSON
When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. A...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.
WILLIAM S. HART
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I got my money's worth!
WILLIAM S. HUNTER
Kindness, Courtesy, Courage, and a Commitment to Academic Excellence
WILLIAM S. HUNTER
England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boil...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
In enterprise of martial kind / When there was any fighting, / He led his reg'ment from behind / He ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether t...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to t...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Junkies have no interest in sex and they have no interest in other people except as suppliers of jun...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns f...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no sec...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Make no mistake; all intellectuals ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.
WILLIAM S. PALEY
Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
NAKED Lunch -- a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
The only possible ETHIC is to do what one wants to do.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks fo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I was new in the game and like all young thieves thought I had a license to steal. It didn't last.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
When I first put this uniform on.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT