If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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(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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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