When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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