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. BURROUGHSI am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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