I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDo 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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The world is now a virus.
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