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. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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