Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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