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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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