We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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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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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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