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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSParanoia is just having the right information.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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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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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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