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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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, 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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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