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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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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.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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