Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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