Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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