Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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