You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMost of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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 to escape.
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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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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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