Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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