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. BURROUGHSYour mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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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 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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