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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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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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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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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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