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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More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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 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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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