I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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I 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.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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