There are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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