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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.

William S. Burroughs

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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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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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