He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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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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