Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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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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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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