I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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