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. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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