There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS(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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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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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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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The world is now a virus.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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