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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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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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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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