The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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 couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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