The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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