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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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