Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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