No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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