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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Information Myself Right
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
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

Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Law Question Start Stop
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Dreams Place Practice
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Act Advantage Himself Man
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Accident Magical Universe Willing
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Death Dreams People Society
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Afford Energy Life Pleasure relief Spiritual
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Cat Growth Myself People Preference
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Face Fact Government Insane Leadership Worse
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Defeat Hustle Level Mark Yourself

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