There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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(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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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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