I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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 magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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