Paranoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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 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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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