You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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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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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 are no innocent bystanders.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The world is now a virus.
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