I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSParanoia is just having the right information.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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 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 simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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