A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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 am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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