We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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