Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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The 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
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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 mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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