There are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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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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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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