There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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The world is now a virus.
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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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