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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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