When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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