How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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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 are no innocent bystanders.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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