We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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 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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Most 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.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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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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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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