If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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 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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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The world is now a virus.
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