Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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