If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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