In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Quote by William S Burroughs

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No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.

No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes...

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes...

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want...

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want...

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to...

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to...

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the...

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the...

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators...

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators...

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas,...

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas,...