I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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 you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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